SydPUG meeting: change of location

Tomorrow evening's SydPUG meeting, has been moved to the Australian Computer Society on Castlereagh St, Sydney (between Market and Park Streets -- map).

I'll be talking about "Building Dynamic Video Webs", which involves using web CGI scripts and databases to recompose video, and other fun stuff that we've been hacking on at annodex.net.

So, it's an actual dry run. It's a fair guess we'll move to a nearby pub around 8pm :-)

Tutorial at WWW2005 Developer's Day

I'll be giving a tutorial on Building Dynamic Video Webs at the WWW2005 Developer's Day on May 14 in Chiba, Japan.

In Sydney next Tuesday evening (May 3), I'll be doing a dry-run at the Sydney PostgreSQL users group. Given it's at the James Squire Brewhouse, it probably won't be so dry at all :-) All welcome, so please come and enjoy the friendly, nerdy warmth of the JSBH. It'll also be my last booze-up before escaping to Japan and Europe for a little while, so let's party!

A little more about the tutorial:

This session shows you how to use familiar server-side scripting to build dynamic, interactive video webs. You can use CGI scripting and database backends to provide customization and personalization of video content on an unmodified web server. Using normal scripting languages, you can create hyperlinks into and out of video and manipulate tracks of timed XML metadata.

I'll be demonstrating scripting with Benno's pyannodex, an awesome set of python bindings for mucking around with Annodex media. We've used this together with a database backend for CMMLWiki, and that style of programming gives you all the flexibility of server-side scripting to produce custom video content instead of HTML.

We've got hundreds of hours of Annodex media content from LCA2005, so you can also come along to SydPUG and re-live some of the excitement of LCA! As Pia Waugh would say, Rock on!!!